Formed in 1972, by the ex-Detroit members Jim McCarthy and Johnny Badanjek, Rocket only obtained a relative fame in your hometown. However, at least the band guaranteed two radio hits; "Oh Well!" (a cover from Fleetwood Mac) and "Turn Up The Radio". Initially on Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes, the vocalist David Gilbert join the band in 1976, by the Bandajek request. However, as on Amboy Dukes, due to his frequent envolvements with alcoholism and heavy drugs, David begins to cause internal conflicts inside the band until your dissolution in 1983.

During all of your trajectory, the band released six albums without many commercial repercussion; Love Transfusion (1977), Rockets (1979), No Ballads (1980), Back Talk (1981), Rock And Roll (1982) and Live Rockets (1983).